Alert archive / South Dakota / Winter Storm Watches
Winter Storm Watches in South Dakota, 2021
15 winter storm watches in 2021. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of winter storm watches reaches back to 2005.
Winter Storm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 15
- Busiest month
- January3 winter storm watches
- Busiest day
- January 13, 20212 winter storm watches
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 3:35 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FSD | Brookings, Clay, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, McCook and 6 more | 24 hr |
| Jan 13, 2:43 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ABR | Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Jan 16, 2:53 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | UNR | Custer, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington | 12 hr |
| Feb 27, 3:52 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha, Moody, Turner | 11 hr |
| Mar 8, 4:24 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | UNR | Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington | 23 hr |
| Mar 11, 9:08 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | UNR | Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Jackson, Lawrence, Meade and 2 more | 30 hr |
| Mar 13, 3:24 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FSD | Brookings, Moody | 24 hr |
| Apr 4, 3:06 PM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | UNR | Custer, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington | 24 hr |
| Apr 7, 2:29 PM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | UNR | Lawrence, Meade, Pennington | 14 hr |
| Apr 17, 3:26 AM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | UNR | Custer, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington | 24 hr |
| Oct 10, 2:49 AM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | UNR | Custer, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington | 37 hr |
| Nov 10, 3:26 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ABR | Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Nov 11, 3:11 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FSD | Brookings | 8 hr |
| Dec 7, 2:54 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | UNR | Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Jackson, Mellette, Oglala Lakota and 2 more | 36 hr |
| Dec 8, 3:31 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FSD | Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison and 12 more | 32 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Custer County7
- Lawrence County7
- Meade County7
- Pennington County7
- Moody County4
- Brookings County3
- Lincoln County3
- Minnehaha County3
- Turner County3
- Fall River County3
- Clay County2
- Lake County2
- McCook County2
- Union County2
- Yankton County2
- Clark County2
- Codington County2
- Day County2
- Deuel County2
- Grant County2
- Hamlin County2
- Marshall County2
- Roberts County2
- Bennett County2
- Jackson County2
- Oglala Lakota County2
- Kingsbury County1
- Miner County1
- Mellette County1
- Todd County1
- Tripp County1
- Aurora County1
- Bon Homme County1
- Brule County1
- Charles Mix County1
- Davison County1
- Douglas County1
- Gregory County1
- Hanson County1
- Hutchinson County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.